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and aldridge was pushed by noah.
just realized jim? boylen is with the bulls now lol.
Meanwhile, another team chokes down the stretch against the Dubs.
and aldridge was pushed by noah.
just realized jim? boylen is with the bulls now lol.
Aldridge was definitely pushed.. it sucks to lose like that.
With that said, it shouldn't have come down to that.
The execution in the finals minutes wasn't good.
They couldn't make baskets, Aldridge with the heavily guarded layup,
Manu looking for a foul more than trying to score. It was just hard to watch.
Also don't know why Pop closed with that line up.
Why, needing a 3, they come from a time out with Tony/Manu/Kawhi?
And how with 10 seconds Kawhi tries to Kobe a shot from 3? Couldn't anybody at least look for the pass?
Shouldn't Green or Patty be on the court during that play?
The lineup absolutely did not make sense.
This is a major problem. Tim has to play with one of them. I don't think it is efficient to play Tim with LMA at the same time. Clogs the paint too much.
It's like he was trying to lose.
Nobody was shooting well from 3, but imo they needed at least Patty or Green even if it was as decoy.
Having 10 seconds and still shooting that kind of shot... didn't need a timeout for that.
2014 Spurs finished with the best record on the road. The comparison of that team to this version of the Spurs is unfair tho'.
It's like Pop would rather not go into overtime.
Spurs treat the regular season like it is practice. Didn't the lineup against the Hawks do well? Why didn't he use the same lineup?
Even Bulls' commentators were surprised Pop didn't go with Danny for the last play. In fact Verde sucked hard for the game, but still, Pop could have used him as a bait or even as a screener and put JButler on the uncertainty of whether or not to switch. Messed up play for sure. It looked as if Pop put Kawhi in a very tough spot intentionally. Maybe as a learning process?
All 4 Ls were giveaways by the Spurs.
I don't know why Pop would make up a 'teachable moment' for somebody who is already a veteran with the Spur. Pop gave the game away because he didn't want to exhaust his players with an OT. Besides, Spurs still have 2nd best record in the NBA. No use trying to catch GSW for the best record. Only goal now is to have a record better than the Cavs.
The Spurs are a much better team than last year. They can easily dominate in defense. It's just the offensive style of play isn't that explosive since you they aren't taking as much 3's as last year.
Because Kawhi might be a veteran in the system but this playmaker-clutch-moment-go-to-guy role is new to him. Before this year, the ball would have been in Manu's or Rique's hands.
And Rique still had a decent look at the final seconds, just didn't go in.
Yeah I think it was blocked...hard to tell.
Diaw and West are alright when the opposing team doesn't have a good big on the bench but against teams like the Bulls Pop needs to change up the rotations to limit that duo as much as possible.
It was blocked.
Pop might be too attached to the old big 3, or he's really stubborn.
He really doesn't make adjustments mid game to force the other coach to adapt. It's always him reacting to what the other coach is throwing out there, and sometimes not even that. If we are having troubles to score ourselves, he just yells at guys. Maybe its because for Pop its the process, the big picture or what not. His only adjustment in all of the tough games against elite compe ion has been to play Kawhi 40 minutes, tighten the rotation (cutting out all wild cards minutes--a bad strategy since maybe he has guys out there who can help and give the others a rest, so that they have energy to close out the game, but nope.) He doesn't make lineup changes or forces up the other coach to make adjustments themselves.
Not surprisingly, some of the best coached games by Pop lately have been games when someone was out. When he doesn't have Manu, TD or Kawhi (the Philly game), those are the only games that I have seen Pop really make lineup adjustments and tweaking things, benching guys who are actually playing badly, and instead going with whoever is playing well or has the hot hand. Those games are some of the most interesting because Pop actually coaches the rest of the team to improve, and some young or new guys have actually given surprisingly good play in short opportunities.
Then we have the tough games on the road, and if he has his old vets and Kawhi, he will ride them. If one or two are having a terrible game, he doesn't make adjustments, either in lineups or introducing a wild card into the bench specially. In the closing minutes, why oh why go to Manu. I know he has come through during his career, but he's 38 Pop! He was terrible this game on both ends, just awful. So was TD on offense. He just didn't have a good game, then why do you have him make the last plays? Why go to him on a post up?
It was painful to watch.
I am not cliffjumping or anything. Pop said we are not going to be good offensively until March and blamed this loss entirely on the second Q (when we had some defensive lapses and McDermott went off). I think he knows more went on in the game beyond that Q, but that stuff he's keeping to himself.
CIA Pop.
It was blocked by Rose just as Kawhi's shot was blocked by Butler. Terrific defense by Chicago in the last minute. Poor play calling for us - really poor.
Someone should have come to Kawhi when he was smothered by Butler before he put that shot up, but if you look, nobody was open and apparently the play was for Kawhi to figure it out. We can do better than this.
Ah, didn't notice the block. Gotta give props to Bulls defense
Daily reminder that momentum doesn't matter.
We didn't win the first half when the reffing appeared to be on our side. They only took two more free throws than us. There were many points in the first half when I thought we got away with some fouling and we took more free throws.
Reffing was inconsistent, but it doesn't seem like they were on the bulls' side to me.
There were bad calls late but the Spurs still had plenty of chances to win. All you can do is use it as a learning opportunity. Still for how bad the bench was, the questionable calls and poor 3P shooting it was still only a 3 point loss.
ok guys, I missed the game last night. 1st time this season. Other than danny green shooting like , what happened? I looked at the box score and it looks like butler didn't do much. What happened?
The bench happened. Terrible all around play by the bench.
Yep...Good block by Rose.
I saw the Vine over and over and Rose had to have blocked the ball with his fingernails. It was that close.
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